My tech show is airing today!

October 2, 2009

On Tuesday of this week, we taped a really fun episode for my television show, which is airing today! The show is all about technology with a strong emphasis on social networking. As you may know, I like staying on top of the latest technological trends and I especially love meeting the great visionaries who have contributed to this new paradigm of social networking. My guests were Biz Stone (@biz) - one of the founders of Twitter, David Pogue (@pogue) - New York Times technology columnist and author of 'The World According to Twitter,' Chris Hughes - the co-founder of Facebook, and Heather Cabot - Yahoo's Web Life Editor. It was fascinating talking to these experts and if you watch the show, I'd love to hear what you think. Leave a comment on my blog or on my Facebook, or just Tweet me!

: Various staff members, lined up near my office, waiting for the show to begin

: My new assistant Jessica, busy at work

: The big meeting/briefing before the show – a good time to check my emails – oops – no tweeting while meeting!

: My wardrobe room this year doubles as a voice-over studio.

: A laptop on stage – I logged into my Twitter account on this computer before the show began. Notice all of the Blackberries, IPhones, and laptops in the audience?

: I started off in the control room for this episode.

: Ron Palacio, Rob Maurizi, and Jarrett Garcia – members of the MSLO tech crew – they were very excited to attend.

: A ‘bumper’ with the very young Chris Hughes, co-founder of facebook.

: The show begins!

: My first guest, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

: Here I am with Biz.

: Joey Kola, our warm up artist, handing out some giveaways to keep the energy level high during intermissions.

: Here I am with New York Times technology columnist David Pouge, who is promoting his new book ‘The World According to Twitter.’

: Next was Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook.

: Here I am with some of my own digital team, Parneet Gosal and Brenda Dargan. Not shown in the photo is Eliad Laskin, who actually took this picture.

: Logging back into my Twitter account

: This is Heather Cabot, Yahoo’s Web Life Editor. She walked me through the great features of the new Yahoo homepage, search engine and email.

: We also taped a Q&A session where the audience had a chance to ask me and my guests questions.

: Biz, David, me, Chris, Heather

: Rolling on camera 5!

: My hair and make up artist Mary Curran is giving the thumbs up for a show well done.

: I wheeled out a cart filled with older technology. Did you know that the functions of all 115 pounds of this stuff now fits in a 4.1 ounce Blackberry?

: An old black and white tube TV – I still think that black and white televisions have their own charm.

: One of my earlier computers – I have heard that people now make aquariums out of the monitors – that’s a good way of recycling.

: Who could forget the fun of PONG on ATARI?

: I still have thousands of slides that need to now be digitized.

: Nick Douglas is a technology writer and the founding editor of the humorist Web site valleywag.com. He is the author of the new book Twitter Wit, a very funny compilation of Twitter aphorisms and witticisms.